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Hello If anyone like Guild basses, particularly the vintage variety, I started a group on FB. It’s just doubled it’s membership today. There’s two of us now 😆 Guild Bass Group

It’s a select group, exclusive of you will 😆😉

Vintage Guild Basses

I’ve stared a Vintage Guild FB page https://www.facebook.com/groups/3239641099392762/?ref=share

Current Sensible collection.

Got to love a good collection of cases.

My current rehearsal room rig. 2 Acoustic 370 amps and 2 408 (4x15) cabs.

My two keepers. Black and Maple 1973 and Mocha/Walnut 1978.

I’ve been a sucker for the Guild B series of basses since being a fan of Ali McMordie of SLF when I started playing. Over the years I’ve owned two B301F fretless single pickup versions, one B301 a fretted one pickup, but the holy grail had always been a 302 or 402. The 301/302 are passive and the 401/402 are actives. Without a suffix the basses are mahogany and with an ‘A’ suffix they are ash. A 402A is an active 2 pickup with ash neck and body. I finally found and got hold of a B302 nearly 18 months ago, pictured below. I fell foul of cites regulations. I could have risked having posted without the certificates but having waited over 20 years to find one without a headstock repair I wasn’t prepared to do that. It took 502 days from purchase to having it in my hands. That was down to English and US processes and my procrastination. Ironically the regs had been amended during this time and longer applied to instruments containing rosewood. 🙄 Anyway, it was well worth the wait. 😎 Picture 1: The B302 Picture 2: B301F fretless I had about 15 years ago. Picture 3: B301 repaired headstock, sold to fund the 302.

I bought back a 406 off Damö. I’d originally swapped it with him for my first 408 (left hand cab) and 220 amp. Since then I’d restored a 406 narrow and realised I really wanted another 406 so jumped on this when it became available.

Apologies for the lack of updates on the restoration. I actually finished it last year and sold it on. The tolex wasn’t a great job as it puckered in a couple of places. It looked a lot better than it was but not my best restoration.